LouLou_07

Hi there!

Me and my partner fly to Melbourne on 15th April via Hong Kong.
Have been looking on the Hong Kong airport website for duty free perfume, but there are no prices on there.

Just wondering if anyone else on this forum has stopped there and if the prices for fragrances really are that much cheaper than here?

Thanks for any help!

LouLou_07

Scotty123

I shall be able to tell you in 9 days

LouLou_07

: God! You must be so excited! We've still got 29 days to go and i'm already as excited as a kid at christmas!! Can't believe the move is almsot here!

Just think, if you posted a letter to Oz now, you'd still get there before it!!

Happy Travels!

spalen

Not greatly cheaper than Aus - but cheaper than UK . Aus seems pretty good value on these sorts of things electronics and stuff are only a few quid cheaper. Perfume/aftershave i think from memory isnt much different to aussie prices.

Plus - HK Airport is notoriously expensive Duty Free wise - so much so they've just started a campaign 'same price as downtown' - but they chose the downtown shops and shops in HK are REALLY expensive !. Its the markets where everything is cheap.

29palms

We are in the same boat as you
flying to Melbourne via Hong Kong 05th may (staying for 3 nights) then off to Melbourne. Are you looking forward to it?

Sir Les Patterson

posts not that slow to oz lol ....only take a couple of days loulou

LouLou_07

I can't wait!!! Honestly can't beleive that what we've been dreaming about is becoming a reality! My partner can't wait to get back either...he's been here for a year but been homesick for down under and I can't wait to get my flipflops (thongs!!) on and get some nice brown toes! yippee!! And to see so many more colours than we have here in the UK! And to see my sister too!! yay!!

....so in answer to your question...yes i guess i am a tiny bit excited!!

LouLou_07

hee hee! my mistake! Although you've given me a thought....might be quicker for me to post myself instead of waiting for the plane!

Scotty123

yeah pretty amazing now... im on my rollercoaster of feelings one day im reallllyyy happy im going then the next im like what the ____ am I doin. But really I am 99% happy and cant wait to get out there

DunRoaminTheUK

We didn't find duty free in HK particularly cheap.

On a completely different note, if you have a stopover in HK don't make the mistake we made just before we boarded our 11:45pm flight to Sydney, which was waiting in the initial departures section (that you walk into after going through passport control) for our flight to be called for boarding (this is what we tend to do in the UK).

Our 6 month old baby boy decided to show us the contents of his dinner again about 10 minutes before our flight was due to board (which in HK is normally no sooner than 15 minutes before take-off) and we ended up having to run all the way to the gate (and taking into account that all of the boarding gates are served by a monorail system, which you may end up waiting 10 minutes for) and we only made the plane because the HK Cathay staff were willing to hold on for 10 minutes. Never again. Go straight to your departure gate as they have coffee shops etc in each terminal gate section. Mind you, there were a fair few passengers who had seemed to make this mistake. I think that the real problem is that they don't warn you about the time it takes to get from customs to the departure gate.

wongstonn

Hi

Hong Kong has a chain of shops called Sassa which specialises in perfumes etc.. which provides some of HK's best prices for that kind of stuff. My wife (who's from Hong Kong) uses it in preference to duty free, which as other people have commented, is no great shakes.

Neil